The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-28
RATHER A QUEER PLACE.
THE HOUSE TWO GENTLEMEN GOT
INTO AFTER SOME TROUBLE.

INTO AFTER SOME TROUBLE.
a Little Child, Eight Unhappy Women,
Fat Athlete, a Fair Young Person
With Tousled Head, and a Maniac.
From the Neg York Sun.
Two men, who had been appointed COM
mittee from an uptown club to select a
future club house for the organization. met
yesterday afternoon at2 o'clock and walked
around to Madison avenue arm in arm
One was city Justice and the other a Colo
mel of militia. Both were suave, easy-going
and amiable men of the world, and they
smoked placidly as they stood on the stoop
of the first house ON their list and talked of
their mutual friends. After they had been
standing there some time, the Colonel turned
hquiringly to his friend and said:
"Lemme see; have you Iungg"
'sTwice," said the other.
SWELL l will have to go at it."
He seized the bell, yanked it back and
forth with some enthusiasm, and took up an
easier position against the rail while he dis
cussed the shapeliness and grace of pretty
girl who was moving spiritedly along
across the street. The two men watched
her with great interest until she disap-
peared around the corner, and the Judge
turns at it for time, and then, descending
to the sidewalk, they looked the house over
carefully.
1t was city residence of handsome pro-
portions, four stories and a basement in
height, brown stone, and worth about $50
900. The pealing of the gong could be heard
plainly in the street when they rang, and
yet they did not get any response There
was abundant signs of life about the house.
There was a short consultation, and then
the committee descended to the basement
and rang the lower bell sharply Almost
instantly the door was opened, and the
woolly and alert head of small negress was
thrust forth.
s'What d. y wan'?" asked the child, sus-
piciously.
1--WE want to look over the house." said
the Colonel.
Thechild edged her way out slowly toward
them, keeping her big eyes fixed alertly on
their faces, and then suddenly, without say
ing another word, she dashed between the
two men and scudded out into the street,
where she leaped upon the tail end of a cart
that was rumbling by, and went sailing out
Of sight.
The visitors looked at each other, and
then pushing their way into the passage
wandered along through the dark interior
until they came to the kitchen. There they
found colossal negress sitting on a low
bench by the stationary tubs, and porting
with the keenest enjoyment over yellow
covered novel, out of which she was spelling
the words slowly and half audibly. She
did not pay the slightest attention to the
intruders, and they examined the range and
passed through two other rooms without
meeting anybody, and, ascending the stair
case knocked gently at the door of the
back parlor. No response Another
knock. They could hear the noise
of feminine voices from within,
and, as their second attempt to
gain recognition failed, the Judge opened
the door and looked into the room There
were seven or eight unhappy and rather
MISUNDERSTANDING women of the boarding
house variety dressed in wrappers and loose
morning gowns, all sitting around the table
and indulging in cakes and tea. One or two
of them looked up curiously at the intrud-
ers, and then they went on talking, while
the committee backed out, closed the door
softly and knocked at the door of the adj
joining apartment. A mufied scream of
"Come inn reached their ears, and
as this was the first recognition they
had so far had in the house, they
corner they saw a large and bulky woman
with wet towel bound around her head,
going through series of athletic exercises
with ropes, pulleys, and weights fixed
against the wall. She weighed about 800
pounds, and she was clad in heavy and
serviceable bathing suit. She pulled and,
snorted wildly from the violence of her ex-
ertions, but hammered away with unceas-
ing vigor and enthusiasm. The visitors
stepped forward, examined the machine
with great gravity, commended it, apollo
gized for the intrusion, and with
drew. The burly athlete had neither
time nor breath to say anything, and she
kept steadily at her work The door was
closed softly, and the committee, after
some natural hesitation, assembled to the
next floor. Here they rang the bell which
communicated with the basement and leaned
over the bannisters to see if any servants
would respond. No one came. They rang
again, and, after another wait, the Colonel
approached the nearest door and knocked
sharply with his knuckles A feminine
voice bade him enter, and they stalked
into the room. At the mirror between
the windows there stood tousle-headed
young woman in a single and very much
abbreviated garment powdering the end of
her pretty pug nose. When she saw the re-
Election of the two strangers in the glass she
gave a startled shrek, there was a flash of
white arms and feet, and the young woman
landed in the middle of the bed, where, by
single and spiral motion, she twisted her.
self up in the bed clothes and sat a mournful
heap with nothing visible except the tousled
head and pair S very ,ss big blue eyes
W
rantable intrusion"
s.Oh, never mind said the young woman,
good-naturedly. 'Its all right now, but it
rather startled me first, because was ex-
pecting the chambermaid.
1--WE were looking over the house, said
the Judge, "with an idea of hiring it for
club. 1t seems like a substantial house."
''Oh, it is just like all the other New York
boarding houses" said the girl, pleasantly
''It is every man for himself and the devil
take the hindermost The plumbing is very
much out of order, but it's nice and big, and
| suppose if you redecorate it it would look
very nice. This room would be big enough
for billiard table, wouldn't itT'
They discussed the question gravely, and
then the two men withdrew with repeated
apologies AT the door of the front room
On the same floor the Colonel raped lightly.
Come in" instantly replied q voice that
was surcharged with emotion and perturba-
ton. "Come in, and if you have few
friends bring them with you. l like to have
large, varied and noisy body of strangers
ntIude into my room at all hours of the
day. Ii conduces TO general comfort, and
Is an unquestioned aid TO reflection"
All this comes from an ink-stained and
unhappy man who was writing in the